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by Robert Nisbet (Editor)
This classic volume deals with a crucial contemporary social issue: the conflict between traditionalism and modernism
Author Biography
Robert A. Nisbet (1913-1996) was Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Columbia University, and before that, dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Riverside. Among his many books are History of the Idea of Progress, The Sociological Tradition, The Degradation of the Academic Dogma, and Teachers and Scholars, all available from Transaction.
Robert G. Perrin is professor of sociology and director of graduate studies at the University of Tennessee.